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The Anatomy of Hope

How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

By Jerome Groopman

By Jerome Groopman

By Jerome Groopman

By Jerome Groopman

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    About The Anatomy of Hope

    Why do some people find and sustain hope during difficult circumstances, while others do not? What can we learn from those who do, and how is their example applicable to our own lives? The Anatomy of Hope is a journey of inspiring discovery, spanning some thirty years of Dr. Jerome Groopman’s practice, during which he encountered many extraordinary people and sought to answer these questions.

    This profound exploration begins when Groopman was a medical student, ignorant of the vital role of hope in patients’ lives–and it culminates in his remarkable quest to delineate a biology of hope. With appreciation for the human elements and the science, Groopman explains how to distinguish true hope from false hope–and how to gain an honest understanding of the reach and limits of this essential emotion.

    About The Anatomy of Hope

    An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can change
    the course of illness

    Since the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.

    The search for hope is most urgent at the patient’s bedside. The Anatomy of Hope takes us there, bringing us into the lives of people at pivotal moments when they reach for and find hope–or when it eludes their grasp. Through these intimate portraits, we learn how to distinguish true hope from false, why some people feel they are undeserving of it, and whether we should ever abandon our search.

    Can hope contribute to recovery by changing physical well-being? To answer this hotly debated question, Groopman embarked on an investigative journey to cutting-edge laboratories where researchers are unraveling an authentic biology of hope. There he finds a scientific basis for understanding the role of this vital emotion in the outcome of illness.

    Here is a book that offers a new way of thinking about hope, with a message for all readers, not only patients and their families. "We are just beginning to appreciate hope’s reach," Groopman writes, "and have not defined its limits. I see hope as the very heart of healing."

    About The Anatomy of Hope

    An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can change
    the course of illness

    Since the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.

    The search for hope is most urgent at the patient’s bedside. The Anatomy of Hope takes us there, bringing us into the lives of people at pivotal moments when they reach for and find hope–or when it eludes their grasp. Through these intimate portraits, we learn how to distinguish true hope from false, why some people feel they are undeserving of it, and whether we should ever abandon our search.

    Can hope contribute to recovery by changing physical well-being? To answer this hotly debated question, Groopman embarked on an investigative journey to cutting-edge laboratories where researchers are unraveling an authentic biology of hope. There he finds a scientific basis for understanding the role of this vital emotion in the outcome of illness.

    Here is a book that offers a new way of thinking about hope, with a message for all readers, not only patients and their families. "We are just beginning to appreciate hope’s reach," Groopman writes, "and have not defined its limits. I see hope as the very heart of healing."

    About The Anatomy of Hope

    An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can change
    the course of illness

    Since the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.

    The search for hope is most urgent at the patient’s bedside. The Anatomy of Hope takes us there, bringing us into the lives of people at pivotal moments when they reach for and find hope–or when it eludes their grasp. Through these intimate portraits, we learn how to distinguish true hope from false, why some people feel they are undeserving of it, and whether we should ever abandon our search.

    Can hope contribute to recovery by changing physical well-being? To answer this hotly debated question, Groopman embarked on an investigative journey to cutting-edge laboratories where researchers are unraveling an authentic biology of hope. There he finds a scientific basis for understanding the role of this vital emotion in the outcome of illness.

    Here is a book that offers a new way of thinking about hope, with a message for all readers, not only patients and their families. "We are just beginning to appreciate hope’s reach," Groopman writes, "and have not defined its limits. I see hope as the very heart of healing."

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    About Jerome Groopman

    Jerome Groopman, MD, is the Recanati Professor of Immunology at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS. He and his work have been… More about Jerome Groopman

    About Jerome Groopman

    Jerome Groopman, MD, is the Recanati Professor of Immunology at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS. He and his work have been… More about Jerome Groopman

    About Jerome Groopman

    Jerome Groopman, MD, is the Recanati Professor of Immunology at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS. He and his work have been… More about Jerome Groopman

    About Jerome Groopman

    Jerome Groopman, MD, is the Recanati Professor of Immunology at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS. He and his work have been… More about Jerome Groopman

    Product Details

    Category: Wellness | Spiritual Nonfiction | Religion

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Jan 11, 2005 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375757754

    Category: Wellness | Spiritual Nonfiction | Religion

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Random House
    Dec 23, 2003 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9781588363589

    Category: Wellness | Spiritual Nonfiction | Religion | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $12.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Dec 23, 2003 | 280 Minutes | ISBN 9780739310274

    Category: Wellness | Spiritual Nonfiction | Religion | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $12.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Oct 15, 2003 | 346 Minutes | ISBN 9781415901953

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    “Provocative and important . . . a book about healing and life . . . Groopman . . . writes with a clear, crisp, unpretentious prose that keeps the reader interested and the pages turning. Like Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande, he is a master storyteller who uses the examples of real patients to explain the mysteries of medicine.”
    –Boston Sunday Globe

    “The Anatomy of Hope sings with compassion and honesty.”
    –ANITA DIAMANT

    “Here is a man who has seen many deaths and many miracles and who writes about them with vigor and faith in the power of individuals to change their fates and in some power larger than all of us as well.”
    –Los Angeles Times Book Review

    “This book is the guide and the promise that all of us–patients and doctors alike–have been seeking, in the quest for hope amid the trials and fears of illness.”
    –SHERWIN B. NULAND, M.D.


    “The kind of hope–the kind of love–that shines through this book’s pages . . . will undoubtedly save many other patients and their families, in body and in spirit.”
    –The Washington Post Book World

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